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The transport department of northern Kunduz province has collected 11.8mn Afn in revenue this year which surpasses last year’s revenue target. The provincial capital Kunduz City has seen repeated bouts of heavy fighting recently. It fell briefly to the Taliban

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pledged to provide USD 300mn to support infrastructure projects in Afghanistan. According to ADB officials, reconstruction of highways and building a solar power generation facility in eastern Nangarhar province are part of the projects.

Organized by the Balkh Chamber of Commerce and Industries, the Balkh International Expo kicked off in Mazar-e Sharif today. More than 100 female and male exhibitors from different sectors and provinces participate in the four-day event, where they can promote

The Shurab Military Base in southern Helmand province is being turned into one of the eight economic zones in the country. President Ashraf Ghani had assigned a special commission to create eight economic zones in the country. One of those

The World Bank has agreed in principle to finance the Peshawar-Kabul highway which will help boost intra-regional trade. According to Pakistan’s Dawn website, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar met with senior officials of the World Bank group in Washington last week

According to a recent report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Afghanistan’s economy is expected to grow by 2.5% this year. The report says Afghanistan’s economy will see a boost this year due to favorable weather, improved domestic revenue

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani pledged to use his own funds for construction of six schools in southeastern Paktika province. A group of Paktika’s tribal leaders and MPs met with President Ghani to discuss challenges of the province. Speaking on behalf

The Natural Resources Monitoring Network (NRMN) have highlighted problems present in Afghanistan’s mining law and called on the government to amend the law in order to boost investment. According to NRMN, the mining law is a major hurdle to investment

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Chinese national Xiaohong Yang as the new Country Director for Pakistan– Yang is ADB’s first female Country Director in Pakistan and will lead the implementation of ADB’s Country Partnership Strategy 2015-2019, which focuses

The third Business Climate Conference was held in Kabul by the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) and the Afghan-German Cooperation’s program for Sustainable Economic Development and Employment Promotion (SEDEP). Representatives of the private and public sectors met to

The National Procurement Committee, chaired by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, approved five contracts worth 5.5bn AFN during a meeting on Sunday evening. The contracts approved included purchase of fuel for the departments of the Chief Executive Office and the Afghan

As many as 57 garden projects worth 50mn Afghanis have been implemented on rain-fed lands in northeastern Takhar province in the past two years through the National Horticulture and Livestock Project (NHLP). Each project included planting fruit trees and cultivating

Afghan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) received positive results from its pilot saffron cultivation program in central Bamyan province over the last two years. For the first year of the experiment saffron was cultivated on nine plots of

Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province has witnessed 70% increase in industrial activity with the establishment of 30 new factories at Sheikh Misri Industrial Zone of the province in the past six months. The province’s business community along with Afghanistan Chamber of

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani inaugurated the third phase of the Kamal Khan Dam in Chaharbarak district of southwestern Nimroz province. The Kamal Khan Dam project has the capacity to irrigate more than 80,000 hectares of agricultural land and provide job

The Afghan government has appointed a Minister of State in an effort to boost tourism and increase national revenue. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani appointed Ghulam Nabi Farahi as Minister of State for Tourism through a presidential decree. According to presidential

The Hidden Flames, a fiction book written by a former child bride and a successful writer Zahra Yaganah, is now also accessible outside of Afghanistan Azmin.co and Amazon.com. The book is based on the real story of Yaganah’s life. Yaganah was

The World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has so far insured three major companies in Afghanistan in an bid to promote foreign direct investment in the country. Collectively worth USD 154mn, these companies are insured against losses incurred

The implementation of provincial budget policy has kicked off in ministries of agriculture, irrigation, public health, education and rural rehabilitation and development. Addressing a conference on the provincial budgeting policy in Kabul on Tuesday, Finance Deputy Minister Shafiq Ahmad Qarizada

A hacking group has leaked information on a huge range of security weaknesses, which may have given the US National Security Agency access to monitor money flows among some Middle East and Latin American banks. The hackers, called Shadow Brokers,

Afghan traders have blocked trade at the Sher Khan Port in northern Kunduz province in protest against problems caused by neighboring Tajikistan. The demonstrators are upset over absence of a Tajik consulate in the province and claim that Tajikistan denies

The Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MoCI) is still awaiting Pakistan’s response in regards to holding the seventh Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Issue Contract Agreement (APTICA). “Suggestion is sent to Pakistan in order to hold the seventh meeting of APTICA. We

The 18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) is going to be held in New York, USA on July 14-15. The gala will be held at the iconic MetLife Stadium, where American has seen National Football League games,

Afghan Minister of Public Works Mahmod Baligh inaugurated phase one and two of the Kunduz-Khulm highway on Wednesday. Strengthening trade in the two northern provinces of Afghanistan and improving traffic system, the highway connects Khulm’s district in Balkh to Kunduz

Over 100 Afghan engineers completed a seminar on how to plan, design and construct roads and bridges. The training was financed by Regional Capacity Development (RCD) program at a total cost of nearly AFN 1.3 million, while the Regional Infrastructure